I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded but it's not like it's a bible.

Awards were made in Hollywood in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time everyone has a purpose.

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know if one of those doesn't work it's a huge hit on your career. People are like 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

I've been on so many movies. Generally I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago in 'Dear John ' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed reshoots so on and so forth. It felt really good.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

I was a total athlete. I loved sports but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete I realized I wanted to be in movies.

I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.

There are a lot of movies I've done that come and go and don't really establish a growing fan base.

I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time you have no desire to see them in movies.

Well it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000 when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb it's kind of what these movies are all about.

I don't think we're living in great times for movies to tell you the truth.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies and Marlene Dietrich Marilyn Monroe.